I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
I already ran Linux when the API blew up but now I'm a girl..
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Might be a Linux thing, though.
Beware of the pipeline
Linux gals are best gals
I tried Ubuntu in college and people told me it was a phase... joke's on them.
One of us! One of us!
Talk to your kids about Linux, before a stranger does.
Your post couldn't be more true. Decades ago I was sold on MythTV, this PVR software but it only ran on Linux and you had to compile it yourself. So I gave Linux and MythTV a shot. As it turned out, both MythTV and early desktop Linux were a buggy, frustrating mess. X broke all the time. Incomprehensible, ungoogleable compile errors all the time.
I spent so much time troubleshooting MythTV and compilation problems that I ended up learning Linux inside and out and the C programming language to be able understand the compile errors. I went on to lead a major open source project and have had a long career as a programmer, using all the knowledge I gained that started with fighting MythTV.
MythTV was an amazing nightmare.
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
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In 2018 I went to research why all the sites wanted my cookies so much, today I'm a free software adovocate and a Marxist
This is the way..?
That sounds kinda like my journey, although without the Marxist part.
- Clueless about tech, bought an iMac
- These ads are annoying. [Installs adblock Plus]. There. Except for fricking Taboola, they can DIAF. And the cookie popup banners. Why do they love cookies if they're not playing cookie clicker?
- It's the MacOS Catalina Update!! It Thanos snapped my iPod music library. This taught me to avoid MacOS and realize that updates often just make things worse. Set up a dual boot with Windows.
- I start browsing r/asshole_design too much. Teaches me to never trust a corporation. I also realize how phones keep dropping useful features. I finally realize uBlock origin blocks much more than ads.
- Oh boy, this is where the rabbit hole starts. I'm sick of how slow my Mac is, addicted to discovering new cool apps on my phone, and discover FOSS. I install Linux for the first time, and it runs quite well on a laptop from 2009. Also YouTube goes full greed mode.
- Get my new Windows gaming laptop, try to balance privacy with convenience. But I'm irked at how slow it is for some basic tasks. Everything is stable, except when the laptop's SSD borked.
- Uh oh. Discord, YouTube, and Reddit all make massively greedy decisions, and I don't want to support those platforms anymore. I discover Lemmy. I try to focus extra hard on FOSS and donate $150 over the course of the year. I think this tells me I've became radicalized. Proprietary platforms keep getting worse and worse.
- Linux resurgence. Tired of Windows, and one of my classes needs a UNIX terminal. Sounds like it's time to dual boot (on 2 SSDs), with Ubuntu being the default. Also I buy a year of Nebula to support creators and stick it to Google.
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I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my "gaming" one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).
The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I've used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don't have to see ads in my fucking inbox
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sudo hostnamectl set-hostname SOMETHINGNORMAL
git clone https://github.com/popey/unsnap
cd unsnap
./unsnap
The first one will set the name behind the @ sign to something not that long. I recommend just usint "PC" for privacy reasons. Often nobody needs to know your device model.
The second one removes snaps and snapd and installs installed apps as flatpak instead. Flatpak is a universal format, similar to snap, came out a bit later but not only Ubuntu uses it. Snap also works on multiple Distros but people dont like it, it is still slow (now just slowing down boot) etc.
perfect demonstration of culture sharing for a newbie. Like advising them to always trust commands they find online without even explaining them what each command does!
Free security pentest!
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What hostnames do people use? I'm tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily
I have NekkoDesktop, NekkoLaptop, NekkoLaptopJr (new laptop) and NekkoServer :) (Phones are just Nekko with release being S9 and S21 for Samsung or G6 for LG)
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Fuck did we all go down the exact same pipeline? I just installed Linux last week and I haven't booted up windows since.
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ONE OF US
ONE OF US
If you ever get bored of Ubuntu. You could try fedora kde, the recent versions are so good.
Don't forget to install codecs though.
That's exactly what I did haha, started with Kubuntu and moved to Fedora
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Welcome to the club. Your lan port is over there. (Insert broadcom chip joke here)
You have been assimilated, resistance was futile.
Seriously, though, I'm glad you're with us. The more people we get to embrace alternative approaches, the more viable the open standards will be.
Welcome to the real world Neo. Don't take the pill with 777 permissions btw.
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k count=128 of=anarchy
chmod 777 anarchy
./anarchy
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It's the path of many of us here, now you will hate linux if you come from windows, give it a couple of months and you'll ask yourself how the fuck you could be on windows till now.
Same thing happened to me. Moved to pop!_os.I have zero regrets. I've learned a ton. I use tons of apps off f-droid and foss Ubuntu apps. I have degoogled most of my life. I'm also developing an Firefox addon for lemmy. It's usable as a user script addon now. It's called lemmytools. It's my small contribution. All because Reddit got stupid. I don't even browse reddit for answers usually about tech/programming stuff anymore because they block my VPN.
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Lol, saaaaaame! I've run plenty of Linux servers over the past 30 years with only occasional attempts at desktop Linux, but never got it to graduate past a secondary box or dual-boot. All of the happy Linux desktop users I've run across on Lemmy convinced me to give it another go. I tried Ubuntu for a month under the mistaken assumption that it was still a relevant, stable, easy distro (10-15 years ago, it was the distro to use if you just wanted a no-fuss Linux desktop). Snaps made me want to end myself, but not quite give up on Linux altogether, so I pivoted and now I'm on month 3 of happily maining Arch!
Wait and see you distrohopping every month for years ending up in a boring stable distro.
Same. I didn't know what a distribution was 8 months ago, now most of my feeds are Linux distro tier list video.
I started using Linux more last year due to work, so the exodus from Reddit to FOSS land has been perfectly timed for me. I think I have 4 different distros in VMs right now.
same here - downloaded Pop_OS yesterday, just have to make space on my overflowing harddrives
I don't understand this topic. What are you trying to say?
I think OP is trying to say:
- There was the Reddit API catastrophe
- That led him to lemmy/ActivityPub
- Which gave him exposure to Linux
- Which he used to give Linux a shot
And he seems to be having a great time with LInux
Okay, thanks for clarification. really didn't get it. :D
The reddit api blocking 3rd party apps pushed a whole bunch of people onto lemmy, and lemmy is very big on FOSS and Linux so it's been a gateway of sorts
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Welcome. I just started using linux recently myself and have been loving it. I would Definitely recommend checking out all the desktop environments to see what works best for you! I've done a bit of shopping and I think I've landed on KDE, myself.
Good luck with the transition!
Boy that escalated quickly
Welcome! Don't be surprised if you feel the need to try out all the distros!
I also started with LTS assuming they would be more usable, but the extremely outdated package have later driven me away from linux for a while.
Now I realize I can just run normal Ubuntu to get reasonably up-to-date packages. But I like the latest (non-graphical) software that is offered by fedora.
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